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 | New Ad by Common Cause : Behind it All: Fair Elections Now! Surprisingly, Senator Patty Murray has not indicated her support of this legislation. Senator Cantwell is a co-sponsor. Bob Burr, who is running against Senator Murray as a Democrat, has this to say: Burr stated that ever since Sen. Maria Cantwell and over half of the House Democratic caucus [...] State Sen. Craig Pridemore (D-49, Vancouver), candidate for the open Congressional seat in the 3rd District, won the Washington State Labor Council’s (WSLC) sole 2010 endorsement over his opponent (presumed Democratic frontrunner) Denny Heck this afternoon. Sen. Pridemore needed a two-thirds majority vote of more than 400 delegates from across Washington at WSLC’s annual Committee on Political Education Convention to win the endorsement. [...] This graphic to the right doesn’t make one proud to be a Washingtonian. And a big part of the reason is Washington, like Florida, has no state income tax. So the sales taxes, the property taxes and all the other “taxes” just keep climbing on the poor while the rich get richer. Oregon needs a sales tax and they need to use some [...] Local blogger extraordinaire, Chris Bassett, was quoted in an Oregonian (Mapes on Politics) article about Clark County politics and the increasingly odd behavior of the 3rd District Representative Brian Baird. Former Democratic activist Chris Bassett, whose blog on Clark County politics I discovered today, points to county-by-county returns on the two big initiatives on last week’s ballot. Voters in each county of the [...] Please join us for an Approve 71 Community Organizing Meeting in Vancouver on September 14th, from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm at the Clark County YWCA, 3609 Main St, Vancouver, WA 98663-2225 RSVP [...] without a second stimulus: NEAR MULTNOMAH FALLS, Ore. — Interstate 84 heading east into the Columbia River Gorge was going to be closed six to eight hours as crews worked to clean a massive spill after a truck tipped, according to state officials. The truck tipped over about seven miles east of Multnomah Falls, closing all lanes heading east, ODOT said. … The truck [...] |      | ||||
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